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Hundreds of camps line the shore of 1,000-acre Lake Dunmore, most of them modest structures constructed in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. In 2009, Lloyd Komesar and Maureen Carn purchased a small one on the lake, in Leicester. Tucked into a hillside, it was tired and un-winterized. “The foundation was in terrible shape, so salvaging the existing structure really wasn’t possible,” says architect Elizabeth Herrmann, hired by Komesar and Carn to design a new camp.

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The zoning board required that the new home be built within the footprint of the former structure and asked Herrmann to do all she could to minimize its impact on the lake. To this end, she devised a pair of dramatic cantilevered decks that jut toward the water. The design allows the decks to come close to the water’s edge without disturbing the shoreline, a solution that “the state’s water quality division embraced,” says Herrmann.